Anyone else use their shuls sukkah? (poll-whose sukkah use)

We don't have anyone to go to eat on sukkos and no place to build our own, so we eat in the shuls sukka. I make one pot dishes, so I don't have to travel with a lot. Last year for shabbos, I put up chulent in our crockpot in shul. It's a small shul and we're pretty much the only ones who eat there. This year, we were invited to another shul for some meals, so we'll go for one iy"h and my dh will go on shabbos because I can't go to shul anyway. I wish we had a sukkah of our own Sad

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Anyone else use their shuls sukkah?

We used the shul sukkah two years ago and ate their communal meals for the first day and I think one meal Shabbos chol hamoed. Now we just go to my parents and his parents.
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Silver Member Joined: Nov 18 2009 Posts: 668

We dont have our own sukkah, we are going to family- sis in laws for all the meals Sad

, we dont have parents living here Sad

Shul and their food, as do most people around. We're in an apartment. My parents have a suka though (garden). In my ex community, though a lot less frum, many had gardens and made sukos but many had a treif one so it was complicated for those in apartment... in the more recent years there has been a shul sukka for that reason.

I do one time only, as my family and dh's family does for women. My dh does twice, as men need to do in his family, though if you can have a meal a day it's ideal (if you have a skuka close by and it's not raining). In the rest we just don't do seudas.
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Posted: Mon, Sep 20 2010, 6:11 am Post subject:

We would have place for one, but I'm quite sure the neighbors wouldt like it. Plus there's no eiruv, so on shabbes we wouldnt be able to use it anyway, so we're going to my in laws.
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Platinum Member Joined: Mar 07 2007 Posts: 10429

I use the shul's sukkah and bring my own food. It's a mechayeh! I can invite people with small children and not be bothered if they run around; If it rains, we can go inside on the same level and not have to climb up to our apartment in the nosebleed section; and the shul has sinks so we don't have to bring our own water for netilat yadayim. Plus we're right there in shul so if we have empty spaces at our table we can invite any lost-looking souls hanging around.

Posted: Mon, Sep 20 2010, 11:27 am Post subject:

my building has a communal sukkah all the men help build it,

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 24 2008 Posts: 6528

We have our own sukah,and we eat by my parents and ILs. THis thread makes me grateful for what I take granted.

We're also sukkah-less. There is one communal meal organised at the synagogue, fortunately we got invited by friends for most other meals on yomtov. There are 2 meals where we don't have plans. For Friday night, we'll just have kiddush and challah rolls at the synagogue sukkah esp since we don't have an eruv. For the other meal, we're bringing our own to the synagogue, but only cold foods and disposable plates.

I'm actually a bit surprised that a synagogue will let someone bring foods cooked at individual homes.

Ditto Mrs Bissli.... maybe in more modern shuls?

Silver Member Joined: Mar 25 2008 Posts: 650

Our schul has a huge sukka, it can take around 200 people.

You have to book a table inside the sukka before YT if you need one.
Then, the schul sets out platas and belchs and you can leave your food on them with a lid on and with a name tag of some kind. The platas are guarded by the chaouch of the schul, and you can also leave a bag with your plates, cutlery, etc. There are a lot of fridges where you can keep your salads and fish.

We eat every meal in the sukka, YT or hol hamoed. We even get pizza delivered to the sukka during hol hamoed ! If it rains, we only do kiddoush and motsi in the souka and we eat the rest of the meal at home, but usually we manage the whole meal.

Diamond Member Joined: Apr 18 2010 Posts: 3017

B'H we live in a place where we have a (very small) space where a Sukkah can go. However, I grew up in NYC and was not one of the lucky few with a penthouse apartment, so until I got married I had never built a sukkah and had always taken meals at the shul sukkah. My parents still do, as do most people where they live. Their shul actually has 2 sukkahs in order to accommodate everyone- one in the courtyard and one on the roof. In any event, I love having my own sukkah. We can't fit more than 4 people in it, but it's great not having to run to shul every time you want to eat.

Silver Member Joined: Mar 25 2008 Posts: 650

What I meant to ask was, is the shul kitchen closed/locked? What happens if the home-cooked food gets spilt on a plata? Or if someone accidentally poured still-hot food in the wrong sink? I'm just a bit wary esp when people are bringing hot food, in the absence of mashgiach.

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